Sayings about Forgetfulness
When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.~ Irish Proverbs
Don’t forget to distrust. ~ Greek Proverbs
Work is good, as long as you don’t forget to live. ~ African Proverb
The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.~ Persian Proverb
When glory comes, memory departs.~ French Proverbs
Old horses don’t forget the way. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Make new friends, but don’t forget the old ones. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains. ~ Traditional Proverb
To want to forget something is to remember it. ~ French Proverbs
Quotations about Forgetfulness
Let us forget and forgive injuries. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
We may with advantage forget what we know. ~ Syrus
To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh. ~ Honore de Balzac
Never forget what you need to remember.~ Garrett Bartley
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.~ Alfred Mercier
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ~ Alexander Pope
The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ~ Thomas Fuller
Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state. ~ Thomas Mann
Women forget all the things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. ~ Zora Neale Hurston
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go… Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Quit the world, and the world forgets you. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Mistakes remember’d are not faults forgot. ~ Robert Henry Newell
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully. ~ Zoe Akins
Of what significance are the things you can forget.~ Henry David Thoreau
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.~ Milan Kundera
It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered. ~ Author Unknown
Have an aim in life — then don’t forget to pull the trigger. ~ Author Unknown
Men are men; the best sometimes forget. ~ William Shakespeare
It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are. ~ Syrus
If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much. ~ Soren A. Kierkegaard
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. ~ Hector Berlioz
Forget past mistakes and forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do now and do it. ~ William J. Durant
Blessed are the forgetful; for they get the better even of their blunders. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ~ Elias Canetti
A man must get a thing before he can forget it. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Continue to love each other with true brotherly love. Don’t forget to be kind to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it! ~ Bible
Forget those things that aren’t worth remembering. ~ Tim Foley
In the midst of your doubts, don’t forget how many of the important questions God does answer. ~ Verne Becker
To forget oneself is to be happy. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living. ~ B.C. Forbes
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.~ Elbert Hubbard
We have all forgot more than we remember.~ Thomas Fuller
Rule #1: Never lose money. Rule #2.: Never forget rule #1. ~ Warren Buffett
Those who can’t forget are worse off than those who can’t remember. ~ Author Unknown
May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting. ~ Maty Caroline Davies
Don’t forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old! ~ May Sarton
Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet. ~ Frank McKinney
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.~ Author Unknown
I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll make an exception. ~ Groucho Marx
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt. ~ Patrick White
Don’t brood on the past, but don’t forget it either. ~ Thomas H. Raddal
Don’t let yourself forget what it’s like to be sixteen. ~ Author Unknown
The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
IForget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. ~ Author Unknown
A good way to forget your troubles is to help others out of theirs. ~ Author Unknown
Don’t you ever forget that in the end, our future is tied to people. ~ Bill Clinton
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy. ~ Mark Twain
Forgotten is forgiven. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. ~ Joan Didion
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